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...they just have to master Econ 101. Lawyer Julio Gonzalez, who oversees Donnelly's busy Tuxpan Hotel, did not grasp some basic concepts at first. Put in charge of personnel, he let profits plummet as the staff, heavily padded with relatives and friends, ballooned. Once faced with the capitalist notion of being fired if he failed to meet his budget, Julio straightened out. "No one had ever been fired for anything before," says Donnelly. "Now Julio is a devil of a capitalist...
...much preferred to have taken out Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Doni Tondo and perhaps a Giotto or two. But as an image of unrepentant terrorist power striking back against the Italian state, the bombing of the Uffizi could hardly have been improved upon. Florentine tourism may plummet. No Italian museum or church, however great or venerated, can be considered safe from this new breed of butchers, whose target is not only human lives but the past itself...
...course, the Clinton plan is a positive development. Cutting the deficit is an obvious first step toward eventually reducing the national debt. Slowing our plummet into the red is something two Republican administrations were unable to do--President Bush certainly wouldn't have done it if he had been reelected...
...tight is the ECAC race? Clarkson split its weekend (a 3-0 shutout of Cornell and a 5-2 loss to Colgate), causing the team to plummet from fourth to seventh in the league...
These impacts blasted enough dust into the atmosphere to shroud the entire globe for months on end, blocking sunlight and causing temperatures to plummet. In the cold and dark, plants and animals perished. Compelling evidence of such cataclysms was revealed last summer: scientists confirmed that a giant crater, 176 km (110 miles) across, discovered under the northern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula was the likely impact point of a huge object, probably a comet, believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other forms of life 65 million years...